Sonic Reducer host and holiday music collector Brian Foss shares 13 festive tracks - Christmas music for people who don’t like Christmas music. The mix features songs from Mike Krol, Sweet Reaper, Mariya May and Kathleen Edwards.
 
1. Mike Krol - Won’t Be Alone Tonight
2. Rubber Band Gun - I Got Myself A Present
3. SAPIN - Christmas Eve
4. Jagged Jaw - Pink Xmas Tree
5. Sweet Reaper - Holidaze
6. Thee Mightees - Christmas Song
7. Frankie and the Lake County Collective - I’m So Over Christmas
8.Mariya May - Mama’s On The Floor (It’s Christmas)
9. Oceans of Mars - Christmas With The Devil
10. The Dead End Streets - Climate Change Christmas
11. Cutthroat Brothers - Candy Cane
12. Kathleen Edwards - It’s Christmastime (Let’s Just Survive)
13. Regal - Love Your Christmass

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Moody, defiant, empowered, and completely original. Every song on Cheryl Waters’ latest musical collage is fit for a Queen. This mix features compelling tracks from Vivian Girls, Seratones, Squid and Orville Peck.

1. Cigarettes After Sex - Heavenly
2. Black Nite Crash - Come Easy
3. Squid - The Cleaner
4. Vivian Girls - Sick
5. The Coathangers - Step Back
6. Seratones - Gotta Get To Know Ya
7. oso oso - charlie
8. Sleater-Kinney - Reach Out
9. Mega Bog - Diary of a Rose
10. Julia Jacklin - Pressure to Party
11. Greys - Burning Chrome
12. Oh, Rose - 25, Alive
13. Katie Ellen - Still Life
14. Orville Peck - Queen of the Rodeo

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Say "hovvdy" (howdy) to a great set of mellow music favorites from John Richards that would fit right in on any Lite FM...in Hell. 

1. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - In Good Faith (feat. Joan Shelley)
2. Bonny Light Horseman - Deep In Love
3. Futurebirds - Waiting On a Call
4. Carter Tanton - Steep Angles On The Back Wheels
5. Long Beard - Means to Me
6. Sera Cahoone and Tomo Nakayama - Crows
7. Hovvdy - So Brite
8. somesurprises - High Rise
9. The Sunday League - I Liked It When You Weren’t Yourself
10. HOLY - Forget About Life
11. Lower Dens - Galapagos
12. Dan Deacon - Sat By A Tree
13. The Districts - Hey Jo

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KEXP Wo’Pop host Darek Mazzone spent time in Amman, Jordan this summer. He dug deep into music from all over the region and selected tracks that best reflect the ever changing nature of this amazing part of the world, including music from Palestine's DAM (دام), Jordan's Yazan Sarayrah (يزن صرايرة), Lebanon's Issam Hajali (عصام حاج علی) and many more.
 
1. El Khat / القات - Ya Raiyat / يا راعيات
2. Autostrad - Ama Aldubul / أم الدبل
3. S H I R A N / شيران - Ya Banat Al Yaman (Live)
4. Satti / ساتی - Commitment (feat. Natalie Demerjian) / كوميتمنت
5. DAM / دام - Prozac / بروزاك
6. El Morabba3 / المربع و الفرعي - Ya Zein (feat. El Far3i) / يا زين
7. Yazan Sarayrah / يزن صرايرة - Erheb / ارحب
8. Sofiane Saidi & Mazalda - Gasbah Trisinti
9. TootArd / توت أرض - Musiqa / موزیکا 
10. Liraz / لیراز - Zan Bezan / زن بزن 
11. Ayloul / أيلول - Ya Rait / يا ريت 
12. Issam Hajali / عصام حاج علی - Ana Damir El Motakallim

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Most of us get stressed out this time of year, right? RIGHT?? Expansions’ own DJ Brit is here to help you chill the bleep out. A very nice hour of ambient and experimental music for you to get a hot stone massage to.

1. Black Lodge Singers - On the Move
2. Susumu Yokota - The Future of Ecstasy
3. Floating Spectrum - Eruption
4. Christopher Tignor - Your Slow Moving Shadow, My Inevitable Night
5. Pita - Two Top Five
6. Starkey - Simple Hive
7. Sleepertrain - Disappear
8. Land of Light - Between Two Grains of Water
9. Ocean Moon - Cloud Garden
10. Papivores - Heard by Stones
11. Young Spirit - Beautiful Dancing
12. Olan Mill - The Point, The Circle, and The Sphere
13. Steve Hauschildt - Subtractive Skies
14. Emptyset - Blade
15. Violet - Bed of Roses
16. Northern Cree - Jealous Fool
17. Oiseaux-Tempête - Out of Sight

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